OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 36. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
TimeTree 5: An Expanded Resource for Species Divergence Times	388
New Methods to Calculate Concordance Factors for Phylogenomic Datasets	352
Corrigendum to: IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era	190
Recent Demographic History Inferred by High-Resolution Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium	153
ASTRAL-Pro: Quartet-Based Species-Tree Inference despite Paralogy	120
Genomic Analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster Populations Reveals Longitudinal Structure, Continent-Wide Selection, and Previously Unknown DNA Viruses	100
Asterid Phylogenomics/Phylotranscriptomics Uncover Morphological Evolutionary Histories and Support Phylogenetic Placement for Numerous Whole-Genome Duplications	86
GeneRax: A Tool for Species-Tree-Aware Maximum Likelihood-Based Gene Family Tree Inference under Gene Duplication, Transfer, and Loss	85
Genomic Epidemiology, Evolution, and Transmission Dynamics of Porcine Deltacoronavirus	79
The Chicken Pan-Genome Reveals Gene Content Variation and a Promoter Region Deletion in IGF2BP1 Affecting Body Size	78
The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Is Driven by Acceleration of the Substitution Rate	77
Bayesian Evaluation of Temporal Signal in Measurably Evolving Populations	76
Herbicide Selection Promotes Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbiomes	71
Selection Analysis Identifies Clusters of Unusual Mutational Changes in Omicron Lineage BA.1 That Likely Impact Spike Function	66
Evolutionary Genomics of Structural Variation in Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) Domestication	61
Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens	59
Broccoli: Combining Phylogenetic and Network Analyses for Orthology Assignment	56
Gene Loss Predictably Drives Evolutionary Adaptation	56
Is Phylotranscriptomics as Reliable as Phylogenomics?	54
Causes and Consequences of Bacteriophage Diversification via Genetic Exchanges across Lifestyles and Bacterial Taxa	53
Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci	52
Venom Systems as Models for Studying the Origin and Regulation of Evolutionary Novelties	52
Unraveling the Complex Hybrid Ancestry and Domestication History of Cultivated Strawberry	48
Evolution of Plasmid Mobility: Origin and Fate of Conjugative and Nonconjugative Plasmids	46
Ancient Hybridization with an Unknown Population Facilitated High-Altitude Adaptation of Canids	45

Giant Starship Elements Mobilize Accessory Genes in Fungal Genomes	42
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2	42
Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida	41
Premetazoan Origin of Neuropeptide Signaling	40
Pseudofinder: Detection of Pseudogenes in Prokaryotic Genomes	40
The Neandertal Progesterone Receptor	39
Purifying Selection Determines the Short-Term Time Dependency of Evolutionary Rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 Influenza	39
De Novo Assembly of 20 Chicken Genomes Reveals the Undetectable Phenomenon for Thousands of Core Genes on Microchromosomes and Subtelomeric Regions	38
Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Global Species Diversity of Rhododendron	37
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	36
Ongoing Recombination in SARS-CoV-2 Revealed through Genealogical Reconstruction	36